Influenza Headlines and Flu Vaccination Information
LONDON, England (AFP) — The European Medicines Agency is probing whether there is a link between the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine and the sleeping disorder narcolepsy amid concerns in Finland and Sweden.
Vaccine will protect against both the swine flu and seasonal flu strains.
FRIDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease experience more life-threatening complications from the H1N1 swine flu than from seasonal flu, a new study has found.
Three more people, including two children, died of swine flu in Orissa Friday, taking the total deaths due to the H1N1 influenza in the state to 22 in the past two months, officials said.
Swine flu has claimed 16 lives in New Zealand this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units. read more
A strain of human swine flu found in Hong Kong was detected to be resistant to Tamiflu, the sixth such case in the city, the Department of Health said in a statement today.
Bhopal, Sept 2 (PTI) With one more person succumbing to swine flu today, the death toll due to the disease rose to 28 since its outbreak this season in Madhya Pradesh, officials said.
Swine flu has claimed 16 lives this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units. read more
Swine flu has claimed 16 lives this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units.
It's not even flu season yet, but flu shots are already available, and this year the CDC is recommending everyone older than six months be vaccinated. ABC26 News Reporter Vanessa Bolano has more.